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Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Idiots, Clark thought. This play just didn't work. It was almost as bad as kidnapping a child for money. Cops were just too good at tracking those fools, and Little Willie was sure as hell boarding a USAF transport at Pope Air Force Base right now. If they really landed at Lajes, the process would start real soon, and the only variable was how many good guys would bite the big one before the bad guys got to do the same. Clark had worked with Colonel Byron's boys and girls. If they came into the aircraft, at least three people would not be leaving it alive. Problem was, how much company would they have in the hereafter? Hitting an airliner was like having a shoot-out in a grammar school, just more crowded.
They were talking more, up front, paying little attention to anything else, the rest of the aircraft. In one sense, that was logical. The front office was the most important part, but you always wanted to keep an eye on the rest. You never knew who might be aboard. Sky marshals were long in the past, but cops traveled by air, and some of them carried guns… well, maybe not on international flights, but you didn't get to retire from the terrorist business by being dumb. It was hard enough to survive if you were smart. Amateurs. Rogue mission. Bad intelligence. Anger and frustration. This was getting worse. One of them balled his left hand into a fist and shook it at the entire adverse world they'd found aboard.
Great, John thought. He turned in the seat, again catching Ding's eye and shaking his head side to side ever so slightly. His reply was a raised eyebrow. Domingo knew how to speak proper English when he had to.
It was as though the air changed then, and not for the better. Number 2 went forward again into the cockpit and stayed for several minutes, while John and Alistair watched the one on the left side, staring down the aisle. After two minutes of frustrated attention, he switched sides as though in a spasm, and looked aft, leaning his head forward as though to shorten the distance, peering down the aisle while his face bounced between expressions of power and impotence. Then, just as quickly, he headed back to port, pausing only to look at the cockpit door in anger.
There's only the three of them, John told himself then, just as #2 reappeared from the front office. Number 3 was too hyped. Probably just the three? he wondered. Think through it, Clark told himself. If so, that really made them amateurs. The Gong Show might be an amusing thought in another context, but not at 500 knots, 37,000 feet over the North Atlantic. If they could just be cool about everything, let the driver get the twin-engine beast on the ground, maybe some common sense would break out. But they wouldn't be very cool, would they?
Instead of taking his post to cover the right-side aisle, #2 went back to #3 and they spoke in raspy whispers which Clark understood in context if not content. It was when #2 pointed to the cockpit door that things became worst of all - nobody's really in charge, John decided. That was just great, three free-agents with guns in a friggin' airplane. It was time to start being afraid. Clark was not a stranger to fear. He'd been in too many tight places for that, but in every other case he'd had an element of control over the situation-or if not that, at least over his own actions, such as the ability to run away, which was a far more comforting thought now than he'd ever realized. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Number 2 headed aft to look at the woman sitting next to Alistair. He just stood there for a few seconds, staring at her, then looking at Alistair, who looked back in a subdued way.
"Yes?" the Brit said finally, in his most cultured accent.
"Who are you?" Number 2 demanded.
"I told your friend, old man, Alistair Stanley. I have my passport in my carry-on bag if you wish to see it." The voice was just brittle enough to simulate a frightened man holding it together.
"Yes, show it to me!"
"Of course, sir." In elegantly slow movements, the former SAS major slipped out of his seat belt, stood, opened the overhead bin, and extracted his black carry-on bag. "May I?" he asked. Number 2 replied with a nod.
Alistair unzipped the side compartment and pulled the passport out, handed it over, then sat down, his trembling hands holding the bag in his lap.
Number 2 looked at the passport and tossed it back into the Brit's lap while John watched. Then he said something in Spanish to the woman in 4A. "Where is your husband?" it sounded like. The woman replied in the same cultured tones that she'd used just a few minutes earlier, and #2 stormed away to speak with #3 again. Alistair let out a long breath and looked around the cabin, as though for security, finally catching John's eye. There was no movement from his hands or face, but even so John knew what he was thinking. Al was not happy with this situation either, and more to the point, he'd seen both #2 and #3 close up, looked right in their eyes. John had to factor that into his thought processes. Alistair Stanley was worried, too. The slightly junior officer reached up as though to brush his hair back, and one finger tapped the skull above the ear twice. It might even be worse than he'd feared.
Clark reached his hand forward, enough to shield it from the two in the front of the cabin, and held up three fingers. Al nodded half an inch or so and turned away for a few seconds, allowing John to digest the message. He agreed that there were only three of them. John nodded with appreciation at the confirmation.
How much the better had they been smart terrorists, but the smart ones didn't try stuff like this anymore. The odds were just too long, as the Israelis had proven in Uganda, and the Germans in Somalia. You were safe doing this only so long as the aircraft was in the air, and they couldn't stay up forever, and when they landed the entire civilized world could come crashing in on them with the speed of a thunderbolt and the power of a Kansas tornado-and the real problem was that not all that many people truly wanted to die before turning thirty. And those who did used bombs. So, the smart ones did other things. For that reason they were more dangerous adversaries, but they were also predictable. They didn't kill people for recreation, and they didn't get frustrated early on because they planned their opening moves with skill.
These three were dumb. They had acted on bad intelligence, hadn't had an intel team in place to give them a final mission check, to tell them that their primary target hadn't made the flight, and so here they were, committed to a dumb mission that was already blown, contemplating death or life-long imprisonment… for nothing. The only good news, if you could call it that, was that their imprisonment would be in America.
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22246 = 11123 + 11123
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/16/1996 ( premiere US TV movie "The Bombing of America" ) is 11123 days
From 8/3/1998 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) To 4/24/2003 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 general availability announcement as scheduled severe criminal activity & all Microsoft activity & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Washington human-genome research announcement & all University of Washington activity & all Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation activity ) is 1725 days
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From 2/11/1969 ( Jennifer Aniston ) To 4/24/2003 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 general availability announcement as scheduled severe criminal activity & all Microsoft activity & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Washington human-genome research announcement & all University of Washington activity & all Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation activity ) is 12490 days
12490 = 6245 + 6245
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From 2/11/1969 ( Jennifer Aniston ) To 4/24/2003 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 general availability announcement as scheduled severe criminal activity & all Microsoft activity & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Washington human-genome research announcement & all University of Washington activity & all Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation activity ) is 12490 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/13/2000 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer transition & all Microsoft activity & all Steve Ballmer activity & all Bill Gates activity ) is 12490 days
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20928 = 10464 + 10464
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/27/1994 ( United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the pilot and plane crash survivor along with me Kerry Wayne Burgess - circa 1990 also known for official duty as Wayne Newman the Deputy United States Marshal and then as Chief Deputy United States Marshal and the active duty commissioned officer of the United States Marine Corps - and the other Lockheed L-1011 aircraft passengers and crew murdered in a scheduled terrorism-sabotage attack by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-Corbis-NASA-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal by causing the external mounted Orbital Sciences Pegasus space satellite booster rocket to explode and fatally disable our aircraft ) is 10464 days
From 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush kills 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a non-violent offender military prisoner of the United States ) To 4/24/2003 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 general availability announcement as scheduled severe criminal activity & all Microsoft activity & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Washington human-genome research announcement & all University of Washington activity & all Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation activity ) is 5027 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/8/1979 ( premiere US TV series "Prisoner" ) is 5027 days
From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 4/24/2003 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 general availability announcement as scheduled severe criminal activity & all Microsoft activity & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Washington human-genome research announcement & all University of Washington activity & all Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation activity ) is 4138 days
4138 = 2069 + 2069
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From 8/17/1960 ( premiere US film "The Time Machine" ) To 2/6/1998 ( premiere US film "Blues Brothers 2000" ) is 13687 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/24/2003 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 general availability announcement as scheduled severe criminal activity & all Microsoft activity & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Washington human-genome research announcement & all University of Washington activity & all Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation activity ) is 13687 days
From 8/17/1960 ( the Soviet Union trial of the United States Central Intelligence Agency pilot Gary Powers begins in Moscow Russia Soviet Union ) To 2/6/1998 ( premiere US film "Blues Brothers 2000" ) is 13687 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/24/2003 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 general availability announcement as scheduled severe criminal activity & all Microsoft activity & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Washington human-genome research announcement & all University of Washington activity & all Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation activity ) is 13687 days
From 7/31/1955 ( premiere US film "Spy Chasers" ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 13687 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/24/2003 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 general availability announcement as scheduled severe criminal activity & all Microsoft activity & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Washington human-genome research announcement & all University of Washington activity & all Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation activity ) is 13687 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/24/2003 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 general availability announcement as scheduled severe criminal activity & all Microsoft activity & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Washington human-genome research announcement & all University of Washington activity & all Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation activity ) is 13687 days
From 4/22/1945 ( Adolph Hitler admits defeat ) To 4/24/2003 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 general availability announcement as scheduled severe criminal activity & all Microsoft activity & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Washington human-genome research announcement & all University of Washington activity & all Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation activity ) is 21186 days
21186 = 10593 + 10593
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/3/1994 ( Susan Smith admits to murdering her two children in her car in John D. Long Lake near Union South Carolina and the car had been days earlier discovered by me the known official Chief Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and reported to other officials and in order to maintain investigation of Susan Smith and her co-conspirators that include Microsoft Bill Gates ) is 10593 days
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30280 = 15140 + 15140
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From 2/1/1931 ( Boris Yeltsin ) To 4/24/2003 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 general availability announcement as scheduled severe criminal activity & all Microsoft activity & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Washington human-genome research announcement & all University of Washington activity & all Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation activity ) is 26380 days
26380 = 13190 + 13190
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Microsoft News Center
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Is Available Worldwide Today
SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, 2003 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of Windows Server (TM) 2003
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Thursday, April 24, 2003
Gates gives $70 million for genome work at UW [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
By Luke Timmerman
Seattle Times business reporter
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in the largest donation ever to a Northwest university, today is announcing a $70 million gift to strengthen the University of Washington's already renowned center for human-genome research.
The money will be used to help build a state-of-the-art research building to foster scientific collaboration and lure more star scientists to his hometown, Bill Gates said in an interview.
"This will cement the leadership role the university is in, and holds great promise for pushing forward the contribution that genomics work will make to all kinds of diseases," said Gates, co-founder of Microsoft. "It also shows a commitment on my part, the foundation's part, to keep Seattle pre-eminent in these areas."
Gates said the bulk of his gift, $60 million, will go toward a new building on campus for the Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Bioengineering. The remaining $10 million will be used for genomics projects on diseases of the developing world.
Gates' gift will enable the UW to construct the kind of building that federal research grants don't cover. The entire building will cost $150 million. Other than Gates' gift, it will be built with $12 million in federal money, $10 million from the Whitaker Foundation, which supports biomedical research, plus money from other private sources and bond sales.
Construction is scheduled to begin in August, and the first phase is scheduled to open in the fall of 2005. A news conference is scheduled today for the formal announcement.
"The way it works," Gates said, "is a few places gather a lot of the great scientists, and that's where they get the grants and the equipment. You end up with three or four places that really do the best work. Almost anybody would put Seattle on the list in genomics as one of the three or four places where there's a lot of work going on. It's a leader, and I believe this community will stay a leader."
The gift is more than five times the size of the one Gates made in 1991 to attract gene-sequencing pioneer Dr. Leroy Hood from Cal Tech to the UW, a landmark event in the region's emergence as a biotech center.
Hood left the UW in late 1999 to found the nonprofit Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, but the UW School of Medicine has since been on a roll.
Two years ago, the UW won $30 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to establish two of the nation's three "Centers of Excellence" in genomics. The third is at Yale University.
Months later, two UW researchers were named among the eight most influential leaders of the Human Genome Project, the worldwide scientific collaboration to map and sequence the human genetic code. Then last summer, the university recruited a third person on that elite list when Dr. Robert Waterston accepted the new chair of its Department of Genome Sciences.
Waterston, who led one of the largest chunks of gene-sequencing work at Washington University in St. Louis, is considered by scientists to be in the same league as more famous scientists such as Dr. Craig Venter, the former head of a private company that raced with the public genome project.
Dr. Philip Green, one of the UW's top computational biologists and genomics leaders, said Waterston is the kind of leader with magnetic pull for scientists around the world, particularly because he keeps his mind on science instead of spending all his time on "power games" as an administrator.
Although the Human Genome Project has been his life's work, Waterston said in an interview the project has not yet lived up to the hype. He called the next stage of research, a critical one for using the genome in human health, "an exploratory phase."
For example, Waterston said the genomes of humans and malaria parasites have been sequenced, but now scientists need to look at more daunting problems about how proteins, the cellular workhorses, interrelate. Scientists will also want to learn how some people develop resistance, or why some respond better to vaccines than others.
And though the Human Genome Project had a clearly defined goal of mapping the book of life, Waterston said, it will be critical in the coming era to ask the right questions going forward, and set the right research priorities to advance human health.
Waterston said one of his first jobs is to recruit more scientists, which he now believes will be easier.
The new Gates-funded building will bring 20 existing faculty members together, he said, and have room for another 14 recruited from around the world, with space for a total of 300 to 400 people when including graduate students and staff.
"This is an amazing statement of the importance of this area," Waterston said. "I'm confident that this is the place."
Dr. Paul Ramsey, the dean of the UW School of Medicine who has been involved in plans to expand research at the Gates-funded building and at South Lake Union, said few outside the region realize it, but the school has been emerging for a long time. UW snagged $431 million in federal health-research grants in fiscal 2002, making it the second-biggest recipient of such grants behind Harvard. Grant money has been climbing by an average of more than 17 percent per year over the past decade, he said.
Ramsey said the new Gates-funded building, and a proposed campus at South Lake Union, will add a combined 1 million square feet for research.
Ramsey said the UW has risen and won so many grants because it has a longstanding culture of research collaboration across disciplines like computer science, engineering, biology and clinical medicine.
The university has long-standing relationships with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and many local biotech companies. Ramsey said collaborative spirit is a regional edge, in a field that's notoriously competitive and cutthroat for money and fame.
In the past two decades of breakneck competition to learn more, Boston and San Francisco have emerged as the undisputed leaders.
They have outdistanced Seattle in key measurements such as number of research institutions, number of doctorates awarded, number of companies formed, number of biotech employees, venture capital and corporate investment in research and development.
Ramsey said the UW and Seattle's unusual blend of skills in computation, biology and clinical medicine has it well-positioned in a future where collaboration is a must.
"Seattle is very well positioned to be one of the handful of global leaders in the next step of research following the Human Genome Project," Ramsey said.
It also could put Seattle in the cross hairs of the pharmaceutical industry. Drug companies have been pouring money into leading research hubs just to nestle next to world-class academic scientists. Swiss drug maker Novartis has said it plans to invest $4 billion in research and development over the next decade in Cambridge, Mass., to be near Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
One major drug company already has a toehold here — Merck bought Kirkland-based Rosetta Inpharmatics two years ago, then decided to move the operation into a new building at South Lake Union to be near the Hutchinson Center and the UW.
Jeff Brotman, UW Regent and co-founder of Costco Wholesale, said he's convinced that biomedical research may be one of the few industries that can rev up Seattle's economic future and believes the Gates gift will be a "transformational event."
He's out trying to make another one happen by raising $60 million from the business community to help the UW lease space in South Lake Union. Fund raising has not been easy with a sluggish stock market, but Brotman said he is about one-sixth of the way toward the goal.
To push his case, Brotman says that when the UW School of Medicine's expansion into the Gates-funded building and South Lake Union is complete, the school's number of employees will rise from about 14,000 to 24,000 people, and they will earn a combined annual payroll of about $2 billion. That would place the impact of UW medical research, in terms of jobs and payroll, on a par with Microsoft in Washington, he said.
"This will have a tremendous catalytic effect," Brotman said. "If we can combine all of this with South Lake Union, it will change the face of Seattle from an economic standpoint."
Gates said his gift is a rare one that's intended to support his interests in the Northwest, education and the future of medicine. He said he has read papers by the UW scientists, met some of them and spent a lot of time with Ramsey.
"I admire him quite a bit, and all the different scientists here," he said.
Gates, the world's richest man, also has a personal connection to medical advances. He saw some new drugs for breast cancer were on the cusp of becoming available when his mother, Mary, a former UW Regent, died of the disease in 1994.
"Certainly advances in cancer make you think about people you care about who could have been saved if the technology was there," Gates said. "It would be great if progress was made there. If you think of the next 20 years, I'm confident those kind of advances will take place."
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hitler-admits-defeat
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APRIL 22 THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Apr 22, 1945:
Hitler admits defeat
On this day in 1945, Adolf Hitler, learning from one of his generals that no German defense was offered to the Russian assault at Eberswalde, admits to all in his underground bunker that the war is lost and that suicide is his only recourse.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/apr/20/freedomofinformation.politics3
theguardian
MI5 papers cast new light on Hitler's last days
Richard Norton-Taylor
The Guardian, Thursday 20 April 2000 11.42 EDT
A first-hand account of Hitler's last days, released today, paints a dramatic picture of a "broken" and paranoid Führer blaming all around him for the imminent collapse of the Nazi regime as shells from Red Army guns rained on Berlin.
The account, kept secret in MI5 files for more than 50 years, was given by General Gottlieb Berger, a senior SS officer, to British interrogators after the war was over.
Berger, who saw Hitler on April 22 1945, eight days before he committed suicide, was asked how Hitler had died. He replied: "I presume he blew himself up, but he was just as likely to have had a stroke, as he raved like a madman on the 22nd when he spoke to me. He was completely finished, a broken man."
Berger described how he went with Heinrich Himmler, one of Hitler's close confidants, to Berlin. The SS chief tried to persuade Hitler to escape. Berger, according to the MI5 transcript of his interrogation, was furious.
"I told him that it was out of the question and that he could betray the German people, and that it was very easy - he didn't utter a word - to put a bullet through one's head or to take one of those pills or tubes issued, which worked instantaneously," he told MI5.
Berger described how Hitler started raving. "Everyone has deceived me," he recalled Hitler saying. "No one has told me the truth; the armed forces have lied to me; finally, the SS has left me in the lurch."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7568799/Last-days-of-Hitlers-favourite-little-girl.html
The Telegraph
Last days of Hitler's favourite little girl
In her new book, Emma Craigie uncovers the heartbreaking story of 12-year-old Helga Goebbels, who was killed by her parents in the Berlin bunker as the Nazi empire crumbled.
By Emma Craigie 10:00PM BST 08 Apr 2010
It was the loneliness of the 12-year-old that first drew me to Helga Goebbels. She was the oldest of the six children taken by their parents, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, into Hitler's Berlin bunker on April 22 1945. Their tale had barely been written about and had never been the subject of a book. I decided to tell their story from Helga's point of view. My breakthrough was the discovery of an untranslated memoir of their governess, Kathe Hubner, who worked for the Goebbels family for the last two years of the Second World War.
Faced with the inevitability of defeat, Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister, had determined to await defeat and death alongside the Fuhrer. Other leading Nazis had protected their children by sending them into the mountains or out of the country, but Magda Goebbels decided that she and the children would join her husband to bring their lives to what she called "the only possible and honourable conclusion".
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2007_4326786
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Houston Chronicle Archives
DEADLIEST U. S. SHOOTING / 33 KILLED IN 3 HOURS OF CAMPUS TERROR / SCENE: RAMPAGE TARGETS VIRGINIA TECH DORMITORY, CLASSROOMS / SECURITY: EFFECTIVENESS OF UNIVERSITY’S RESPONSE QUESTIONED / Spree ends with gunman's suicide / Some students complain officials didn't warn them
SUE LINDSEY Associated Press, Washington Post, New York Times
Tue 04/17/2007 Houston Chronicle
BLACKSBURG, VA. - A gunman massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history Monday, cutting down his victims in two attacks hours apart before the university could grasp what was happening and warn students.
The three-hour bloodbath ended with the gunman committing suicide, bringing the death toll to 33, leaving dozens wounded and stamping the campus in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains with unspeakable tragedy, perhaps forever.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-162110400.html
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Articles > Popular publications > PR Newswire press releases > April-June 2007 > Monday, April 16
Article: Turner Completes Microsoft Data Center Project in Less Than One Year.
Article from: PR Newswire Article date: April 16, 2007
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Fast-Track Project to take place April 16th in Quincy, Wash.
NEW YORK, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Turner Construction Company will host a 'Ribbon Cutting' ceremony for Microsoft Windows Live Operations (WLO) Columbia One Data Center at the project site in Quincy, Wash. on April 16.
Turner and its subcontractors utilized over 500 workers at peak, and worked around the clock seven days a week for several months to achieve the fast track completion of this project. Ground was broken on the 250,000 sq. ft. Microsoft /WLO facility on May 8, 2006. The project team achieved a Temporary Certificate of Occupancy on February 15 and ...
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First of six Microsoft server farms boots up in Quincy
Microsoft Corp. on Monday opened the doors of a massive data center in Central Washington, turning what was once a bean farm into a "server farm."
The data center in Quincy is about 474,000 square feet and is surrounded on three sides by fields of potatoes, beans and broccoli. An undisclosed number of servers inside are now online, handling Internet traffic to Microsoft's Hotmail program, instant messaging and other tools.
The server farm is the first of six Microsoft has planned for Quincy.
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"Nice figure," the man said, as the pajama tops came off. "I haven't seen an X-rated movie in a longtime, Barb." A videotape was running, of course. The experimental protocol was set in stone. Everything had to be recorded so that the staff could monitor the entire test program. Nice tits, he thought, about the same time Chip did, right before he caressed them on the screen.
"She was fairly inhibited when she got here. The tranquilizers really work, depressing them that way." Another clinical observation. Things progressed rapidly frond that point on. Both doctors sipped their coffee as they watched. Tranquilizers or not, the baser human instincts charged forward, and within five minutes Chip and Mary were humping madly away, with the usual sound elects, though the picture, blessedly, wasn't all that clear. A few minutes later, they were lying side by side on the thick shag rug, kissing tiredly and contentedly, his hand stroking her breasts, his eyes closed, his breathing deep and regular as he rolled onto his back.
"Well, Barb, if nothing else, we have a pretty good weekend getaway for couples here," the man observed with a sly grin. "How long do you figure on his blood work?"
"Three or four days until he starts showing antibodies, probably." Chip hadn't been exposed in the shower as Mary had.
"What about the vaccine testers?"
"Five with -A. We have three left as uncontaminated controls for -B testing."
"Oh? Who are we letting live?"
"M2, M3, and F9," Dr. Archer replied. "They seem to have proper attitudes. One's a member of the Sierra Club, would you believe? The others like it outdoors, and they should be okay with what we're doing."
"Political criteria for scientific tests-what are we coming to?" the man asked with another chuckle.
"Well, if they're going to live, they might as well be people we can get along with," Archer observed.
"True." A nod. "How confident are you with -B?"
"Very. I expect it to be about ninety-seven percent effective, perhaps a little better," she added conservatively.
"But not a hundred?"
"No, Shiva's a little too nasty for that," Archer told him. "The animal testing is a little crude, I admit, but the results follow the computer model almost exactly, well within the testing-error criteria. Steve's been pretty good on that side."
"Berg's pretty smart," the other doctor agreed. Then he shifted in his chair. "You know, Barb, what we're doing here isn't exactly-"
"I know that," she assured him. "But we all knew that coming in."
"True." He nodded submission, annoyed at himself for the second thoughts. Well, his family would survive, and they all shared his love of the world and its many sorts of inhabitants. Still, these two people on the TV, they were humans, just like himself, and he'd just peeped in on them like some sort of pervert. Oh, yeah, they'd only done it because both were loaded with drugs fed to them through their food or in pill form, but they were both sentenced to death and
"Relax, will you?" Archer said, looking at his face and reading his mind. "At least they're getting a little love, aren't they? That's a hell of a lot more than the rest of the world'll get-"
"I won't have to watch them. " Being a voyeur wasn't his idea of fun, and he'd told himself often enough that he wouldn't have to watch what he'd be helping to start.
"No, but we'll know about it. It'll be on the TV news, won't it? But then it will be too late, and if they find out, their last conscious act will be to come after us. That's -he part that has me worried."
"The Project enclave in Kansas is pretty damned insecure, Barb," the man assured her.
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Henriksen was assembling his team. He figured ten men total, all experienced, and all briefed in on the Project. Foremost among them would be Lieutenant Colonel Wilson Gearing, formerly of the United States Army Chemical Corps. A genuine expert on chemical weapons, he would be the deliveryman. The rest would consult with the local security forces, and tell them things they already knew, establishing and enforcing the international rule that an Expert Was Somebody From Out Of Town. The Australian SAS would listen politely to everything his people said, and maybe even learn a thing or two, especially when his people brought down the new radio gear from E-Systems and Dick Voss trained the Aussies up on them. The new radios for special operations troops and SWAT cops were a thing of beauty. After that, they'd merely strut around with special ID to get them through all the security checkpoints, and even onto the track-and field grounds of the huge stadium. They'd be able to watch the Olympics close up, which would be an interesting fringe benny for his people, some of whom, he was sure, were real sports fans who would enjoy seeing the last Olympics.
He selected his best people, and then had the corporation's travel agent set up the flights and accommodations - the latter through the Australian police, which had reserved a block of hotel suites close to the stadium for their own use throughout the Olympic games. Henriksen wondered if there would be media attention for his company. Ordinarily, he would have insisted on it, just as advertising, but not this time, he decided. There wasn't much point in advertising his company anymore, was there? So, this project was done. Hollister looked over the buildings, the roads, parking lots, and the ersatz airplane runway whose construction he'd supervised here in the Kansas plains. The final stuff had been the usual confusion of niggling little details, but all the subcontractors had responded well to his browbeating, especially since their contracts all had incentive clauses as well.
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The company car pulled up to his four-by-four and stopped, and then Hollister was surprised. The guy who got out was the big boss, John Brightling himself. He'd never met the chairman of the corporation, though he knew the name, and had seen the face on TV once or twice. He must have flown in this very morning on one of his corporate jets, and the construction superintendent was somewhat disappointed that he hadn't used the approach road, which could have easily accommodated the Gulfstream.
"Mr. Hollister, I presume?"
"Yes, sir." He took the extended hand and shook it. "It's all done, as of today, sir."
"You beat your promise by two and a half weeks," Brightling observed.
"Well, the weather helped us out some. I can't take credit for that."
Brightling laughed. "I would."
"The toughest part was the environmental systems. That's the most demanding set of specifications I've ever seen. What's the big deal, Dr. Brightling?"
"Well, some of the things we work with demand full isolation Level Four, we call it in the business. Hot Lab stuff, and we have to treat it very carefully, as you might imagine. Federal rules on that we have to follow."
"But the whole building?" Hollister asked. It had been like building a ship or an aircraft. Rarely was any large structure designed to be completely airtight. But this one was, which had forced them to do air-pressure tests when each module had been completed, and driven his window contractors slightly crazy.
"Well, we just wanted it done our way."
"Your building, Doc," Hollister allowed. That one specification had added five million dollars of labor costs to the project, all of it to the window contractor, whose workers had hated the detail work, though not the extra pay to do it. The old Boeing plant down the road at Wichita had hardly been called upon to do such finely finished work. "You picked a pretty setting for it, though."
"Didn't we, though?" All around, the land was covered with a swaying green carpet of wheat, just about a quarter way into its growing cycle. There were some farm machines visible, fertilizing and weeding the crop. Maybe not as pretty as a golf course, but a lot more practical. The complex even had its own large institutional bakery to bake its own bread, maybe from the wheat grown right here on the campus? Hollister wondered. Why hadn't he thought about that one before? The farms that had been bought along with the land even included a feedlot for fattening up cattle, and other land used for truck-farm vegetables. This whole complex could be self-sustaining if somebody ever wanted it to be. Well, maybe they just wanted it to fit in with the area. This part of Kansas was all farms, and though the steel-and-glass buildings of the project didn't exactly look like barns and equipment sheds, their surroundings somehow muted their invasiveness. And besides, you could hardly see them from the interstate highway to the north, and only from a few public roads closer than that, and the gatehouses for limiting access were stout buildings, almost like pillboxes - to protect against tornadoes, the specifications had said, and sure enough no tornado could hurt them -hell, even some loony farmer with a.50-caliber machine gun couldn't hurt those security huts.
"So, you've earned your bonus. The money will be in your account by the close of business tomorrow," Dr. John Brightling promised.
"Suits me, sir." Hollister fished in his pocket and pulled out the master key, the one that would open any door in the complex. It was a little ceremony he always performed when he finished a project. He handed it over. "Well, sir, its your building complex now."
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John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr., Reinhard Selten
John C. Harsanyi
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Died: 9 August 2000
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Helinger: Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes... and built the A-bomb. Mathematicians... like you. The stated goal of the Soviets is global Communism. In medicine or economics, in technology or space, battle lines are being drawn. To triumph, we need results. Publishable, applicable results. Now who among you will be the next Morse? The next Einstein?
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The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on May 1, 1960 (during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower) when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. At first, the United States government denied the plane's purpose and mission, but was forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government produced its remains (largely intact) and surviving pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
On May 7, Khrushchev sprang his trap and announced:
I must tell you a secret. When I made my first report I deliberately did not say that the pilot was alive and well… and now just look how many silly things [the Americans] have said.
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WASHINGTON -- In an extraordinary White House news conference, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton fielded questions for more than an hour Friday, denying that there were improprieties related to the Whitewater Development Corp. or her commodities market investments.
She said the confusion about the Clintons' 1970s financial dealings -- which has sparked the appointment of a special counsel and calls by Republicans for congressional hearings -- resulted from "our inexperience in Washington" and the demands for personal information.
"It's a learning experience -- sometimes a difficult one," Clinton said. "This is not a long-term problem or issue in any way, but I don't want anybody to have the wrong impression of either of us, and I don't want anything to interfere with doing what the people of this country need done."
Clinton appeared relaxed as she sat in a chair framed by the fireplace in the State Dining Room. A portrait of Lincoln looked down upon her.
In a calm, commanding, occasionally apologetic performance, she lost her composure only once, when asked about former President Nixon, who was said to be near death at the time. She noted that she lost her own father a year ago this month and, as tears welled in her eyes, she said she felt for Nixon's daughters.
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On Thursday, in an interview on the CBS News program "This Morning," Smith said that she had agreed to let the authorities search her home on Wednesday but that she did not know what they were looking for.
With her husband by her side for the interview, she denied knowing anything about the whereabouts of their two sons.
"I did not have anything to do with the abduction of my children," Smith said in the interview.
"I don't think that any parent could love my children more than I do, and I would never even think about doing anything that would harm them," she added. "It's really painful to have the finger pointed at you when it's your children involved."
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates today said he was relinquishing the mantle of chief executive officer, turning over management of the world's most highly valued company to his No. 2, Steve Ballmer.
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Gates to become 'software architect' / Microsoft CEO title goes to Ballmer
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REDMOND, Wash. - The world's richest man got a new job Thursday.
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates handed over the reins of the world's biggest software company to his No. 2, Steve Ballmer, who will take over as chief executive officer.
Gates, 44, who has served as Microsoft's chief since its birth 25 years ago, said he was staying on as chairman and would assume the new role of "chief software architect" to hammer out the company's vision for the Internet age.
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Stanley B. Prusiner
Born: 28 May 1942, Des Moines, IA, USA
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Prize motivation: "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection"
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"I contacted various people and made suggestions which they carried out, yes, and so, yes, I do have some blood on my second hands, I suppose, but one cannot take such matters too seriously, can one? It is business, and it has been my business for some time."
"Well, that's a good thing for you,Dmitriy. That's why you're here," Maclean told him. "John is pretty loyal to his people. You must have done okay."
Popov shrugged. "Perhaps so. He never told me why he wanted these things done, but I gather it was to help his friend Henriksen get the consulting contract for the Sydney- Olympics that I've been watching on TV."
"That's right," Killgore confirmed. "That was very important to us." Might as well watch, the epidemiologist thought, they'll be the last ones.
"But why?"
They hesitated at the direct question. The physician and the engineer looked at each other. Then Killgore spoke.
"Dmitriy, what do you think of the environment?"
"What do you mean? Out here? It is beautiful. You've taught me much with these morning rides, my friends," the Russian answered, choosing his words carefully. "The sky and the air, and the beautiful fields of grass and wheat. I have never appreciated how beautiful the world can be. I suppose that's because I grew up in Moscow." Which had been a hideously filthy city, but they didn't know that.
"Yeah, well, it's not all this way."
"I know that, John. In Russia-well, the State didn't care as you Americans do. They nearly killed all life in the Caspian Sea-where caviar comes from-from chemical poisoning. And there is a place just east of the Urals where our original atomic-bomb research created a wasteland. I haven't seen it, but I have heard of it. The highway signs there tell you to drive very fast to be through the zone of dangerous radiation as quickly as possible."
"Yeah, well, if we're not careful, we might just kill the whole planet," Maclean observed next.
"That would be a crime, like the Hitlerites," Popov said next. "It is nekulturny, the work of uncivilized barbarians. In my room, the tapes and the magazines make this clear."
"What do you think of killing people, Dmitriy?" Killgore asked then.
"That depends on who they are. There are many people who deserve to die for one reason or another. But Western culture has this strange notion that taking life is almost always wrong-you Americans cannot even kill your criminals, murderers and such, without jumping through hoops, as you say here. I find that very curious."
"What about crimes against Nature?" Killgore said, staring off into the distance.
"I do not understand."
"Well, things that hurt the whole planet, killing off whole living species, polluting the land and the sea. What about that?"
"Kirk, that is also a barbaric act, and it should be punished severely. But how do you identify the criminals? Is it the industrialist who gives the order and makes the profit from it? Or is it the worker who takes his wages and does what he is told?"
"What did they say at Nuremberg?" Killgore said next.
"The war-crimes trial, you mean? It was decided that following orders is not a defense." Not a concept he'd been taught to consider in the KGB Academy, where he'd learned that the State Was Always Right.
"Right," the epidemiologist agreed. "But you know. nobody ever went after Harry Truman for bombing Hiroshima."
Because he won, you fool, Popov didn't reply.
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